Your presence has been requested by Legendary Pictures & Universal Pictures to participate in an evening of frills and chills with a screening of You do know about Crimson Peak, right? Tom Hiddleston (Loki!) and Mia Wasikowska (Alice!) in a lavish Gothic horror film? I’ll stick the trailer at the bottom in case you’ve missed...

It’s been two years, but we still think our little ebook, A Steampunk Valentine, makes a fine St. Valentine’s Day present. With forty-one short shorts and poems, there is bound to be something to catch the fancy of your Steampunk sweetheart. And, even better, it is free! The book is available from from Smashwords for...

Snow certainly looks pretty when it is falling, or when it covers the landscape and glistens in the sun or moonlight. Unfortunately, as many are aware right now, snow can also be a major problem. Snow is not new in the human experience, and the people of the 19th century had to deal with it...

Happy New Year! We thought a good way to kick off the new year would be to look back 100 and 150 years ago, to see what was happening then. Knowing history is always a good thing, whether you use it to inform your reading, to inspire new creations, or just look at the news...

A businessman by the name Russell Edwards has a theory about the identity of Jack the Ripper and thinks he can prove it. His suspect: Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant who lived in Whitechapel at the time of the murders and who suffered from auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Kosminski was one of Scotland Yard’s prime...

Cinemax was nice enough to send me a promotion kit for their new show The Knick, which included a DVD of the first episode. The Knick is a period medical drama from Cinemax, premiering tonight (August 8th) at 10 p.m. The eponymous locale is the Knickerbocker Hospital, a struggling establishment in 1900 New York City....

SF Signal, a Hugo award winning fanzine, compiles a list each month of all the science fiction, fantasy, and horror (and related) books coming out. The result is a great resource for readers and their efforts are appreciated by fans far and wide. Each month, I go through their list and pull out the Steampunk(ish)...